At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Youth is wasted on the young.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

The older you get, the better you get.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.